When It Rains, It Pours
It's been raining in Houston lately. It's been raining a lot. The bayous are flowing like roaring rapids and the streets are turning into mini-reservoirs.
It's been dry in Houston this year. Only within the last few months has we started to catch up on the rainfall. Elsewhere in Texas drought rages on. But here we have more water than we know what to do with.
That's the irony of life. Some places can't get any rain. Some places get too much. It certainly doesn't seem to be equitable. And it doesn't seem fair.
And so it happens with the rest of life. Rarely do things actually happen how we want them to happen. They may come at the right time but in the wrong amount. Or they may not come at all. But that's the mystery of life: we've never discovered a way to determine which events happen in our lives. Sure, we make choices, but there are all sorts of environmental variables that we cannot control.
The key is being ready to deal with the unexpected, and know that things rarely do happen in the ways we envisioned them.